Na Kahu: Portraits of Native Hawaiian Pastors at Home and Abroad

Na Kahu: Portraits of Native Hawaiian Pastors at Home and AbroadTracing the lives of some two hundred Native Hawaiian teachers, preachers, pastors, and missionaries, N Kahu provides new historical perspectives of the indigenous ministry in Hawaii. These Christian emissaries were affiliated first with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and later with the Hawaiian Evangelical Association. By the mid 1850s literate and committed Hawaiians were sailing to far reaches of the Pacific to join

Following an overview of Hawaiian natural history and conservation

hawaiian mango and kukui nut

ʻO ia kekahi o nā hana a ua Bilbo nei

and despite its importance

Paul McCartney

proto- or pre-literate past

the origin of the tapa tree

1885) and Joseph Moku‘ōhai Poepoe (1852–1913)—to show how the rich intellectual history preserved in Hawaiian-language newspapers is key to understanding Native Hawaiian epistemology and ontology

sandalwood

With this vision

" refers to the popular Hawaiian desert made using the white meat of coconut fruit

Eddie Aikau surfed some of the largest waves ever ridden at Waimea Bay